Stuff acquired from work

[Butter Face]

dudleybloke said:

One local metal stockholders was split onto 2 sites and the guy supervising the second site had his own company set up to sell off company stock that he made disappear in the paperwork.
I think he got time over it.

Happened local to me too, owners son was creaming stuff off the top. And undervaluing metal to the customer and paying himself the difference!

[PAUL500]

Just remembered another about a local Tesco superstore, the contract cleaners used to be locked in overnight, then let out in the morning with there equipment by security, apparently the Henry type vacuums they used could hide away a whole frozen turkey at times!

[northwest monkey]

The Spruce goose said:

There was a scam where a customer would ring up for returns and we would collect them. Well this gang got together and decided to miss out the whole return to warehouse bit, got a van a few hi-vis and went and did the collections themselves. Did this for about a year before getting rumbled and banged up.

Edited by The Spruce goose on Sunday 29th November 21:28

A place I worked at a few years ago used a couple of massive HP A2 scanner things in the planning department. One Saturday, 2 blokes turned up in a HP liveried van wearing HP branded jackets carrying all the paperwork needed to take the scanners away "for a service". It kicked off big style on Monday morning

[grumpy52]

I was involved in an investigation for a paint company into why the product being manufactured was too much less than the raw materials being delivered.
We knew it was going out the gate but not how .
This was pre computer stock control.
It was only solved when a company truck was stopped by the police on a sunday and they phoned the company secretary.
It involved storemen,transport manager ,drivers and security.
They had a seperate client base all paying cash .
All involved had paid off mortgages in the UK and some had holiday homes abroad.
I rescued lots of old stuff when the garage I worked for re-located inc factory workshop manuals ,kingpin service kits including reaming tools,a BL Special Tuning parts catalogue and the price book and a set of ford group 4 competition revolution alloys .
Like an utter prat I let all the new Mk1&Mk2 escort panels get thrown in the skip !

[robinessex]

Not stolen, but lost, then found! A stock audit at a large electronics factory revealed a missing bar of silver used in the plating shop. This, along with other precious metals, was stored on a locked (secure) cage in the metal store. An exhaustive search and inquiry failed to find it. A few years later, one of the store guys wanted the scrap chunk of metal door stop to hold the door open, so he called out for someone to propel it across the floor to him. When he picked it up, he noticed it had a few shiny scrapes on it. A quick scrape with his pen knife revealed a shiny thing below all the muck and dirt. The silver bar had been found!!!

[PF62]

The biggest 'theft from work' I heard about, was an oil refinery worker who was recruited by a criminal gang to tap into one of the main supply pipes sending fuel from the refinery, and divert hundreds of thousands of litres of fuel for the gang to sell on.

http://www.thurrockgazette.co.uk/news/5034100.Men_...

[Evanivitch]

PAUL500 said:

Just remembered another about a local Tesco superstore, the contract cleaners used to be locked in overnight, then let out in the morning with there equipment by security, apparently the Henry type vacuums they used could hide away a whole frozen turkey at times!

The superstore I used to work at caught the store manager smuggling electrical products out in boxes of beer, minus the beer. We knew he was a tit to before that.

[cptsideways]

Probably explains how this ended up on my conservatory wall


A Mk4 Swordfish torpedo propeller

[bearman68]

I have the most amazing colour stalactite made from condensing rare metal salts inside a glass furnace. When the furnace was knocked down, this was going begging so I kept it on my desk for 5 years, and it came home with me when the company closed.

Not ever sure how safe it is - but the dog or my kids have never licked it,so it must be OK

[straight dad]

robinessex said:

straight dad said:

Any chance of the OP smuggling some paragraphs from work?

This is a forum, not A level English paper. Is the spelling ok ?

Re spelling, I wouldn't know as I couldn't be arsed to read your car crash of a post. Mind how you go.

Edited by straight dad on Monday 30th November 04:13

[Boydie88]

Working in a catalogue sotre while I was in sixth form for threw up a few interesting ones...

There was a build your own remote control car kit that because it was 2 separate boxes came in one large cardboard box. One mate reserved himself the only set when it went on sale and filled the empty space in the box with a few hundred quids worth of an electronic razor and toothbrush. Bought the item after finishing his shift, complete with all the extra bits inside and strolled out the front door to no suspicion what so ever.

The team leader was your local coke head nut case who was always up to a few tricks to boost his pay packet simple things like putting a stolen phone in a mcdonalds cup so when he was waved over with the search wand, they wouldn't check his drink allowing him to walk out with a phone. But we also believe he was behind the most audacious theft we saw...

Arrived in one morning to a massive hole cut out in the roof of the warehouse. This hole was directly above the shelving which (previously) housed all the TVs. Given the warehouse floors are all covered with alarmed lasers they had nailed the point in which to open the roof up so could have only been an inside job. I'd have loved to see how they got the 20kg tvs down from the warehouse roof mind.

[RizzoTheRat]

This thread makes my collection of Bic biros seem a bit pathetic...

[robinessex]

straight dad said:

robinessex said:

straight dad said:

Any chance of the OP smuggling some paragraphs from work?

This is a forum, not A level English paper. Is the spelling ok ?

Re spelling, I wouldn't know as I couldn't be arsed to read your car crash of a post. Mind how you go.

Edited by straight dad on Monday 30th November 04:13

Thanks for the contribution, much appreciated by all

[MrBarry123]

I once took a red board pen home by accident however, after our brief fling, returned it the next day because a) it's not mine and b) the office was missing a red board pen.

[wseed]

I bought a computer rucksack from PC World a few years ago. When I checked inside to see the size and pockets there where a couple of dozen or so USB pen drives. I suspect they'd been placed there for less than legitimate reasons. I did wonder if I'd not discovered them before leaving the store would I have have been left with some explaining to do at the door should they have set off an alarm.

[anothernameitist]

Done a few in my time as a contractor, always best to know who is in the food chain.

Couple of years ago I was on a site that was closing and there was some equipment I rather wanted, so I got a couple of the lads to load the vehicle up and handed them some beer tokens.

Driving out of the site the exit was blocked by security, who were non existant on my entry, wanted to do a security check, oh fk.

They were just happy that I co operated and let me on my way.

[droopsnoot]

There were local tales of people stealing car batteries from a plant by balancing them on the crossbar of their bike, placing a strap around their neck to help hold them in place, then buttoning up their long overcoats to hide it all. Only discovered when someone had the misfortune for their battery to slip off the crossbar and smack their chin into the handlebars.

Also stories of people "saving" nameplates from railway locomotives being scrapped by adopting a very stiff-legged posture while walking out.

Not sure if either are actually true. Many tales of people around the Longbridge area having houses entirely painted in BL colours, as well.

[P-Jay]

robinessex said:

Not stolen, but lost, then found! A stock audit at a large electronics factory revealed a missing bar of silver used in the plating shop. This, along with other precious metals, was stored on a locked (secure) cage in the metal store. An exhaustive search and inquiry failed to find it. A few years later, one of the store guys wanted the scrap chunk of metal door stop to hold the door open, so he called out for someone to propel it across the floor to him. When he picked it up, he noticed it had a few shiny scrapes on it. A quick scrape with his pen knife revealed a shiny thing below all the muck and dirt. The silver bar had been found!!!

Similarly to that I suppose, a work mate was once tasked with picking the bones of a recently bankrupt carpet company - the bank we worked for had financed their fleet of vans on a secured basis so we wanted them back so got in touch liquidators so they knew which were ours. Armed with a last set of accounts they gave us, and a list of our vehicles he and someone from the liquidators set about the place trying to find them all. The liquidators kept bumping into a problem where they found all the vehicles they could, but they in no way added up to the total amount of vehicles (in £) on the books, not even the most bare faced Accountant dealing with a failing businesses would over inflate it by such a degree.

I'm not sure how they found it, but they did - a completely unused XJ220 walled up in the middle of the shop. Don't know if it was genuinely forgotten about because it had been their for a decade or more, or the directors were hoping to sneak in and take it later on.

[Morningside]

I know someone who had their front room woodwork in lovely BT yellow. Someone else was making copper exhaust systems. Dad managed to get a huge roll of Vauxhall vinyl for his car from a friend. This was years ago and I cannot imagine it being as easy now.

Only thing I took from work is a laptop as he owed me £15,000 in wages (which I never saw)

[9patch]

We got a year up without an accident so they gave everyone a swiss army knife. A good quality one too.

It was very surprising the number of chaps who came in the next day with band aids on their fingers.